Word: abe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...RUINED MAP, by Kobo Abe. In this psychological whodunit by one of Japan's best novelists (The Woman in the Dunes, The Face of Another), a detective turns a search for a missing husband into a metaphysical quest for his own identity...
...coverage. He will return to Washington and will continue his three-times-a-week column from there." - "Clifton Daniel, Managing Editor, will become Associate Editor with a group of new duties. He will head up a series of special projects and will supervise the New York Times News Service." >-"Abe Rosenthal, Associate Managing Editor, and before that, Assistant Managing Editor and foreign correspondent, will become Managing Editor." - "Seymour Topping, Foreign News Editor, will become an Assistant Managing Editor...
Most predictable of all was Abe Rosenthal's ascension to Daniel's job. With Reston's blessing, the innovative and energetic Rosenthal, 47, had, in fact if not in name, been running the paper for months. Significantly, when Reston returns to Washington-probably next month-Rosenthal will report directly to the publisher...
...rhythms of the words-by the way he always left room in his songs for a good laugh. Loesser also had a knack for turning the harsh into the lyric. While Guys and Dolls was still on its pre-Broadway tour, Loesser became fascinated with a line in Abe Burrows' book and decided to make a song out of it: The Oldest Established Permanent Floating Crap Game in New York...
...dream of becoming a famous university professor, and contents himself with being secretary to his wife's lover on the local county agriculture committee--a post so petty that he has to bolster his pride by berating a subordinate for not addressing him a "Your Honor," and--like Abe Fortas--seek solace in going off by himself to play the violin. Cariou makes him genuine, well-meaning, and pathetic; and I'd swear he really puts on weight during the three and a half years covered by the play...